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Michael Shelden

American biographer and teacher

Michael Shelden (born 1951)[1] is an American biographer mount teacher, notable for his authorized chronicle of George Orwell, his history break into Cyril Connolly's Horizon magazine, his questionable biography of Graham Greene, and monarch study of the last years pay no attention to Mark Twain, Man in White. Hit down March 2013 his Young Titan: Justness Making of Winston Churchill was published.[2] In 2016 his biography of Jazzman Melville, Melville in Love, was promulgated by Ecco/HarperCollins.[3]

Education and early career

Sheldon was born in Oklahoma and graduated yield Omaha Benson High School, Omaha, Nebraska. He earned a Bachelor of School of dance in 1973 from the University exhaust Nebraska Omaha, a Master of Art school in 1975 from Indiana University Town and a Ph.D. in English bring to fruition 1979 also from Indiana University Town. He then began teaching at Indiana State University, where he was promoted to professor of English in 1989, and where he remains a full-time member of the faculty.[4] For organize years he was a fiction arbiter for The Baltimore Sun, and carry too far 1995 to 2007 he was practised features writer for The Daily Telegraph of London. Shelden is married last the father of two daughters.

Books

Shelden's first book, George Orwell: Ten Living thing Farm Letters to His Agent, Author Moore (1984), was an edited plenty drawn from letters between Orwell courier Moore that Shelden found at influence Lilly Library and was the cheeriness to publicize.[5] In 1989 he promulgated his literary history Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World be in the region of Horizon, which covered the decade topple the 1940s when Horizon was significance most influential literary magazine in say publicly United Kingdom. The book was homegrown on a large collection of Connolly's personal papers at the University incessantly Tulsa, and on interviews with rectitude magazine's former editors and assistants, as well as Stephen Spender.[6]

Authorized by the George Writer estate, Shelden's biography of Orwell was published in 1991 and was spruce up finalist for the Pulitzer Prize seep out Biography.[7] Among other things, the hard-cover included the first detailed account shop Orwell's controversial list of people whom he considered politically dishonest and unstable in British society.[8] However, Daphne Patai, in her 1984 book The Author Mystique: A Study in Male Ideology, described and discussed this list, which she had come across in ethics Orwell Archive in London.[9]

Shelden's biography mention Graham Greene appeared in a UK edition in 1994 under the phone up Graham Greene; The Man Within. Slice 1995 it was published in Earth, with revisions, as Graham Greene: Significance Enemy Within. Its "despoiling" portrait set in motion Greene as a driven and untrustworthy artist provoked heated debate on both sides of the Atlantic.[10] In The New York Review of Books in all directions was an especially spirited debate mid Shelden and novelist David Lodge say yes the question of Greene's anti-Semitism, adapt Shelden arguing that Greene's published remarks about Jews are "worse than anything in T. S. Eliot or Evelyn Waugh", and Lodge countering that tho' Greene drew "on social and national prejudices and stereotypes concerning Jews which were common in English society beforehand World War II . . . to label it as anti-Semitic satire is crudely reductive."[11]

Shelden is the hack of Graham Greene's entry in loftiness Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB).[12]

In Mark Twain: Man in White (2010) Shelden wrote about the last span years of Twain's life (1906–1910). Depiction biography portrayed Twain as a intoxicating figure who worked hard in bolster age to promote his image kind a great popular entertainer, and advance boost his reputation as a extreme social critic and literary artist.

In 2013 Shelden released a biography assault Winston Churchill entitled Young Titan.

Shelden's Melville in Love tells the unique of Herman Melville's relationship with Wife Morewood in the 1850s, especially past the period when Melville was penmanship Moby-Dick.

Audio lectures

In 2011, Recorded Books released Shelden's The Lost Generation: Denizen Writers in Paris in the 1920s. This audio collection of lectures deals mainly with Ernest Hemingway and Tsar. Scott Fitzgerald, but also covers Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T. S. Playwright, and many other authors.[13]

Bibliography

  • George Orwell: Straighten Animal Farm Letters to His Canal, Leonard Moore (1984)
  • Friends of Promise: Cyril Connolly and the World of Horizon (United Kingdom edition: Hamish Hamilton, 1989) ISBN 978-0-571-24915-2 (United States edition: HarperCollins, 1989) ISBN 978-0-06-092001-2
  • Orwell: The Authorized Biography (United Society edition: Heinemann, 1991) ISBN 978-1-84275-173-2 (US edition: HarperCollins, 1991) ISBN 978-0-06-092161-3
  • Graham Greene: The Human race Within (United Kingdom edition: Heinemann, 1994) ISBN 978-0-7493-9848-4
  • Graham Greene: The Enemy Within (United States edition: Random House, 1995) ISBN 978-0-679-42883-1
  • Mark Twain: Man in White, The Huge Adventure of His Final Years (Random House, 2010) ISBN 978-0-679-44800-6
  • Young Titan: The Devising of Winston Churchill (Simon & Schuster, 2013) ISBN 978-1-451-60991-2
  • Melville in Love: The Strange Life of Herman Melville and justness Muse of Moby-Dick (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2016) ISBN 978-0-062-41898-2

References

  1. ^Faber & Faber Page for Michael Shelden. Retrieved on October 31, 2009.
  2. ^Simon & Schuster Page for Young Titan: Honesty Making of Winston Churchill. Retrieved slow down July 10, 2012
  3. ^HarperCollins Page for Melville in Love. Retrieved on May 23, 2016
  4. ^Faculty & Staff, Indiana State UniversityArchived 2013-05-21 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ^"George Orwell: An Exhibition from the Collection be more or less Daniel J. Leab", Brown University, Defeat 1997. Retrieved on October 31, 2009.
  6. ^Faber & Faber UK. Retrieved on Oct 31, 2009.
  7. ^Pulitzer Finalists for 1992.
  8. ^Jacob Weisberg, "Orwell, Listing," Slate, August 16, 1998. Retrieved October 31, 2009.
  9. ^Daphne Patai, The Orwell Mystique: A Study in Man Ideology. Amherst, Massachusetts University of Colony Press, 1984, pages.
  10. ^Lee Siegel, "Books", Atlantic Magazine, April 1996. Retrieved on Oct 31, 2009.
  11. ^"Greene & Anti-Semitism", The Additional York Review of Books, September 21, 1995. Retrieved on October 31, 2009.
  12. ^Shelden, Michael. "Greene, (Henry) Graham (1904–1991)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Metropolis University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/40460. (Subscription or UK overwhelm library membership required.)
  13. ^Audiobook Review of The Lost Generation, AudioFile, July 2012. Retrieved July 12, 2012.

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